I'm sorry for your disappointment, but this is a 6 years-old game and as Adrivan says devs don't work anymore on it. If you look to something new and constantly updated you can try Bannerlord.
In Viking Conquest you can't just "throw money to people" do to things. You have to do it on your own, as this is the one of the main purposes of the Warband series: you have to play by your own. Also, you can tell a lord in your faction to move in a direction or defend a place, if you have enough relations points with him.
I play warband because i got it for free... I would have to pay for bannerlord, and it would likely have the same catastrophic failures in it as its half baked irrational predecessor... I specifically go out of my way to not pay for anything anymore because nothing is ever made with quality anymore... Why should I pay for cheap crap when I can get cheap crap for free?
Its as simple as a crisis of faith... I cannot trust any of these people to produce something with substance... Quite seriously, fan fiction productions of Starwars are better quality then the mainstream productions of the last several years... Why is fan fiction better than mainstream? Because fans care more about the IP then the bloated hog corporations that own them...
'just do something else' isnt an answer... I shouldnt be forced into getting a degree in computer science to produce something myself, when all i want to do is just sit down and enjoy something... I just want some simple leisure that is actually enjoyable... I shouldnt have to develop NASA in my garage in order to get satelite tv to work properly... So again, why the **** should I pay for someones failure?